Chapter
Five:
"Great!
You know where they are, so we'll just leave it to you, okay? Bye then!"
Howard and the other scientists turned and began to walk away as Trowa realized
why they were in such a hurry.
"Wait
a minute. You guys are the ones who blew up our Gundams, our mobile suit
carrier, and the colony. You're the ones who should be
supplying us with a source of transportation," he said accusingly.
"Fine...
you got us. We have a mobile suit carrier you can use.... just don't trash it out
like you did your cockpits. Got
it?" Dr. J answered.
"Alright!
Who's piloting first?" Duo turned around to face his fellow pilots.
"Not
me, I did it last time," Wufei replied immediately.
"I
will." Heero said. "I didn't pilot the last one at all, so I should
be the first to pilot this time."
"Works
for me. This ship's a lot bigger than the one we had last time, so there should
be more than one bed this time, too. At least we can all look presentable to
the leaders of that new Oz Corporation. Geez.... surrendering is so
depressing... I'm just gonna sleep the whole time until it's my turn to pilot
this thing...." Duo lowered his head in disappointment.
"I
wish we still had our Gundams.... It's so hard to believe that we actually have
to surrender.... Anyway, let's get going guys," Quatre reminded his fellow
reluctant Earth-goers.
"Okay.
I'll pilot it second, Heero," Trowa said as he passed Heero and went
inside of the ship.
After
turn order for piloting had been decided, all of the pilots, accept Heero, of
course, went to sleep in the back of the ship. Things rolled along pretty
smoothly as Heero steered the ship towards the Earth, which was still pretty
far away. About four hours later, it was Trowa's turn. Once, again, there
wasn't much going on that's actually interesting enough to add to the story,
until Quatre and Wufei awoke with a sudden case of insomnia (don't you just
love that little disease?). They decided to play checkers to pass the time, but
it wasn't working very well. Quatre was deciding what to do with his turn when
Duo came to the front of the ship with a question.
"Where's
the kitchen? Howard told me there was a kitchen in this thing." he asked.
"I
think it's back behind the rooms. I haven't been there, though. Have you,
Wufei?" Quatre sat up and decided that the checkers game was getting
nowhere, so he cleaned it up and went to the back of the ship with Duo after
Wufei told them he hadn't been to the kitchen yet. "Duo, weren't you
supposed to pilot the carrier after Trowa?" Quatre looked up as he asked
his question.
"Yeah...
How much time do I have?"
Quatre
looked at his watch. "You still have about an hour, actually. Have you
been asleep this whole time?"
"Yup.....
not much else to do but sleep in this thing. What about you, what were you and
Wufei doing when I walked in?"
"Just
playing a game of checkers... It wasn't that exciting so I put it up. Will you
stay awake with us until it's your turn to fly the ship?"
"Why
not. I'm sure three people are better than two when it comes to finding things
to do with your free time," Duo answered, sensing the boredom in Quatre's
voice. "Whaddaya wanna do first? We could go bug Trowa..... or even Heero!
That'd be fun!"
"I'm
sure Heero needs his sleep... and Trowa has to concentrate to fly the ship. Why
don't we find something else to do?" Quatre suggested.
"Oh,
fine.... let's just eat for now.... We'll decide what else to do when we're
done."
"Okay...
Let's see... What do you want to eat, Duo?" On their way back to the front
of the carrier, Duo and Quatre met up with Wufei.
"Duo,
you have to take you shift earlier than expected.... Trowa passed out at the
controls." Wufei informed them.
"Got
it. Is he okay? Did you find out what was wrong with him?" Duo became
worried.
"He's
fine, just needed a little sleep so I put him in his room. I think I'm gonna
try to get some sleep now.... I'll talk to you guys later." Wufei started
back towards his room as Duo and Quatre went to the cockpit. Quatre was
researching data on the new Oz leaders' pasts and Duo was, of course, flying
the ship. After a while, Quatre went to sleep and Duo was left alone with
nothing else but the controls. This time, though, he didn't have as much coffee
as he had last time. So, Duo's shift went by easily and calmly, and it wasn't
until Quatre's turn that anyone awoke. Once Quatre was awake and Duo was
asleep, Heero woke up and decided to do some of his own research on Oz.
"I
already found out their names, ages, and predicted combat skills. We still need
to know what kind of mobile suits they'll be piloting if they resist our
entrance. Aside from that, I can't think of anything we'd need to know just to
..... *shudder* surrender...." Heero had gone up to the cockpit to get his
laptop back from Quatre, only to find out that Quatre had already done some
looking up of the Oz leaders.
"Alright,
I'll think of something. How long is it until we reach the surface?" Heero
asked.
"It's
not too long... as a matter of fact, it's actually Wufei's turn now. Would you
please go wake him up, Heero?"
"Sure.
Be back in a minute." Heero left and brought Wufei back to the cockpit,
and Quatre went to sleep again. It was only an hour and a half later that they
finally arrived at their destination: the Oz base in Italy!
"I
guess we're finally here..... Not that any of us was actually looking forward
to this... I suppose we should just get it over with, right guys?" Duo
turned around to face his comrades, who were now loading themselves with
weaponry they found on the ship.
"Don't
overdo it! Remember, we're here to surrender? We can't walk up there and tell
them we're surrendering with all these guns on us! They'll suspect something
for sure!" Duo reminded everyone. Wufei just took his sword, but everyone
else packed a gun in their pocket.
Upon
their arrival, the Gundam pilots met up with some guards. These guards had been
given instructions to take down anyone who got near the base, since the leaders
were there. They had also packed some weaponry, but not anything the pilots
couldn't handle. Before approaching the guards, they made a plan. Quatre and
Trowa would go for the two on the right, Wufei and Duo would go for the two on
the left, and Heero would take the one in the center. Since they only had a
limited amount of bullets, they couldn't just run out there and start shooting,
so they decided to fight instead. Luckily, Wufei could use his sword and Heero
had packed a few extra guns (come on, you knew he would!). First, each pilot
disarmed his target, and then they began fight. Except for Wufei and Heero, who
directly killed their opponents with their weaponry. After the fight with the
guards, the pilots took the ammunition that the guards had and moved on to the
inside of the base.
"At
least we know they weren't expecting us. If they were, they'd have a lot more
than just five soldiers guarding the entrance. Doesn't it seem kind of strange
that the soldiers didn't even have mobile suits?" Duo wondered out loud.
"Yeah,
actually, it does....Do you think it was a trick?" Quatre asked.
"No.
The most they could do with that trick is make us believe that they aren't
expecting us when they really are, but they wouldn't just waste five men on a
pointless trick like that." Wufei whispered. "They were probably on
their way to other side of the base to get their mobile suits when we ran into
them."
"Shh...
we have to be quiet, there are some people coming!" Trowa whispered. Seven
or eight men passed by without even seeing the pilots in their hiding spot,
which consisted of a rather large air vent, capable of containing all five of
the pilots.
"What
is this? Why is this air vent so big?" Duo asked.
"I
don't know.... Maybe it has something to do with the mobile suits. It did lead
outside, so maybe it was their secret escape route." Wufei answered.
The
pilots continued walking down the vents until they came to a dead end. They
busted open one side of the wall to find a small lobby which currently housed
the top commanders at the Oz base.
"Okay,
listen up. We no longer have our Gundams and there isn't enough Gundanium in
space to even make one more. In other words, we have nothing left to fight
in." Duo was the first to finally say something.
"We
are left with no choice but to surrender. We can't fight anymore." Quatre
said reluctantly.
"Well
then, we wish to stage one last battle with you. Us five against you five,
except it's going to be fair, because you're going to have the same kind of
mobile suits as us." Colonel Dorshav said, leading them to a garage with
ten identical mobile suits. "We'll use these for our battle. Does anyone
have a problem with that?" he asked, leaning on the one he chose to pilot
for the battle. "Good. We'll meet you outside in thirty minutes. Good
bye!" Colonel Dorshav and his crew left with their mobile suits to prepare
themselves for the fight.
"I
guess we don't have a choice but to accept, but I hate to accept charity form
my enemy.... It makes me feel so.... low." Duo said, climbing up to one of
the mobile suits.
"I
don't look at it as charity, but as a way to end the war. These guys wanted
nothing more than to get revenge for their relatives, so they decided that even
if they couldn't have a war against us, they could still find a way to defeat
us themselves." Quatre stated, entering the cockpit of his chosen mobile suit.
After everyone had a good look at the controls and got a chance to get the hang
of the flexibility and speed of their mobile suit, it was time for the big
battle.
"Listen
up! When you see a bright yellow flag wave out of that window he points to
a window on the base next to them, that's the signal to start the battle,
got it?" Dorshav yelled through his speakers. After what seemed like an
eternity, there was a small yellow flag waved out of the window that had been
indicated.
They
started towards each other, either pulling out their sword or pulling back
their gigantic fist. Wufei jumped into the air and did a drop kick on one of
Dorshav's Lieutenants and then challenged him by pulling out his sword. Duo
threw a really hard punch at the other Colonel, knocking him back about twenty
feet. Trowa used his mini beam cannon against another Lieutenant while Quatre
held the third Lieutenant in a dead lock so Trowa could hit him. Heero lunged
forward at Colonel Dorshav with his sword, so Dorshav pulled out his sword and
they began to fight. The Lieutenant that Wufei had challenged showed that he
wasn't interested in a sword fight by knocking Wufei's sword out of his hands
and pulling out his own mini beam cannon. He took aim and fired at Wufei, but
Quatre pushed Wufei out of the way and put the Lieutenant he had in a dead lock
in Wufei's place, causing the beam to hit the Lieutenant instead. When the one
who accidentally just shot his ally went over to see if his friend was okay,
Wufei came up from behind and knocked him over, which made him fall on his
friend. Then Wufei and Quatre split up to help Trowa and Duo. Wufei retrieved
his sword as the Colonel Duo had been fighting got up to fight back. He got in
the Colonel's way of getting to Duo and used his sword to cut off the Colonel's
right arm. Duo then took his own sword and shoved it through the head of his
opponent's mobile suit. Trowa was shooting his opponent while Quatre struggled
to keep him still. Heero finally got a good blow in on Dorshav, knocking him down.
After everyone had defeated their own opponent, they stood next to Heero, who
was still holding his sword at Dorshav's throat.
"I....
I guess you.. won... *swallow* I'll call back all my troops and tell them the
war's over now, if you'll.... let me go...." Dorshav cowered against a
large building.
"I
want to watch you do it. Now." Heero demanded.
"Okay...
fine." Three months later, Dorshav held a huge meeting and finally
gathered every last one of his soldiers in a very large open field, which used
to be the Sanq Kingdom (they had rebuilt their kingdom somewhere else). During
the meeting, Dorshav had to personally apologize to the Gundam pilots in front
of all of his companions. When it was all finally over, the Gundam pilots were
left very empty-handed.
"I
guess it's back to the normal life then, right guys....?" Duo said
reluctantly.
"I guess.... now we need a place to live, too....." Quatre replied.
***Note: I've already got the second part all planned out! Now all I need is some spare time... Oh well! I'm not gonna tell you what happens in the second part, because you're just gonna hafta read it when I finish! {=P By the way, thank you sooooo much for reading my fic and I hope you enjoyed it! Please e-mail me with any comments, questions, or suggestions!! Thanks again!! (:D